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A. MCDONALD.

v NAPKIN PIN. No. 339,674. Patented AprflB, 1886.

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ALEXANDER MCDONALD, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

NAPKlN-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,674, dated April 13, 1886,

Application filed November 23, 1885: Serial No. 183,779.

To an whom it may concern:

Be it known that l. ALEXANDER MCDONALD, of Cambridge,in the county of lvlitldlesex,oitlie Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have in vented a new and useful Improveinent'in Napkin- Pins; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figures 1., 2, and are side views, and Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are edge views, of pins of my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented. The last three figures are edge views, respectively, of the pins shown in the first three of such figures. Fig. 7 is a side View oi'a pin of my invention, with its head in the form of a ring, as hereinafter described.

Each pin, like a common pin, is composed of a piece of wire of suitable length, having a point at one end, as shown ate, and a head at the other end, as represented atd in the drawings. The pointed part of the wire is bent in the form of a hook, I), bet een which and the head (I the wire has a single open coil formed in it, as shown at a.

To use the pin, it is to be forced, point forward, through a napkin nearone edge thereof, and afterward turned about so as to bring the selvage of the napkin within the eye or coil 0. Another of the pins having been inserted in like manner in the napkin, and at a suitable distance from the first one, a person, by hitching both by means of their hooks into the breast part of his coator waistcoat, can readily connect the napkin thereto front thereof.

The head enables a person to hold the pin and suspend it in (No model.)

to advantage, either for hitching it into his clothes or nnhitchingit therefrom.

I do not limit my invention to the precise form of head therefor as represented, as the head may be oi'a globular or other suitable shape, or it may have the form of a ring, as shown in Fig. 7 at d.

The said pin may also be used for fixing a tidy to a chair or sofa, or to a pillow of the i latter, or bed.

I do not claim a tag-hook, as described and represented in the United States Patent No. 143,364, my invention being not only different therefrom in construction, but in its mode of operation, for l have to my napkinhook a single coil of the wire, and I have a book which is not of sufficient length toenter and is not to enter the coil, whereas the taghook of such patent has no coil, but has asemiiing or ceive the blade or point portion of the hook. Furthermore, niy napkin-pin has a head at one end and a pointed hook at the other, and when in use the napkin hangs in the coil, while the hook is in the dress of the user.

I claim- As an improved article of manufacture, the napkin or tidy pin, substantially as described, composed of a piece of wire, headed at one end, pointed and hooked at the other, and coiled, as set forth, between the head and the hook, all being essentially and for use as represented.

ALEXANDER MCDONALD.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, R. B. TORREY.

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